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We investigate the micro-level determinants of labor force participation of urban married women in eight low- and middle-income economies: Bolivia, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Jordan, South Africa, Tanzania, and Vietnam. In order to understand what drives changes and differences in participation...
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We investigate the micro-level determinants of labor force participation of urban married women in eight low- and middle-income economies: Bolivia, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Jordan, South Africa, Tanzania, and Vietnam. In order to understand what drives changes and differences in participation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011888643
market participation through gender lens. Results show that women’s education has a U-shaped relationship with paid work …
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The share of couples where the wife out-earns the husband is increasing in many countries. In this paper, I investigate how this income dynamic affects mental health. Using data on all Swedish couples who married in 2001, I show that mental health is positively associated with own and spousal...
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, persistently large gender gaps in terms of labor supply, earnings, and representation in top jobs remain. Moreover, in countries … the role of children and show that many potential explanations for the remaining gender disparities in labor market … relative to men. In the U.S., we document that close to two-thirds of the overall gender earnings gap can be accounted for by …
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Over the course of China's economic reforms, a pronounced divergence in the labor force participation patterns of rural and urban elders emerged – rural elders increased their rates of participation while urban elders reduced theirs. In this project, based on the data of the Chinese population...
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. Interestingly, the Adolescent Motherhood, Human Capital, Child Development, Cognition, Health, Nutrition, Gender, Parenting effect …
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investigates the effect of early maternal age on offspring human capital development in terms of health and cognition, and relies …
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investigates the effect of early maternal age on offspring human capital development in terms of health and cognition, and relies …
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I examine how one central aspect of the family environment—sibling sex composition—affects women’s gender conformity … first-born women. I show that women with a brother acquire more traditional gender roles, as measured through their choice … mechanism, I provide evidence of increased gender-specialized parenting in families with mixed-sex children. Finally, I find …
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